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One of the most anticipated weekends of the college football season is about to get underway, with an array of conference championship games on deck—some of which could have College Football Playoff implications. DraftKings analyst Mike Golic Jr. , host of the GoJo Show podcast , joined Chron to discuss TCU 's CFP case, conference title bets and more. What intrigues you the most about conference championship weekend? You get a couple of rematches. Utah is the only loss and blemish on USC's schedule, and then TCU and Kansas State, which has looked very different. Still good, but different with Will Howard at the helm in the last few weeks of this season. What a unique challenge for both of those teams. We usually think of that rematch as more of an NFL problem, with the divisions and the way that they're set up, but college football is getting two of those with huge stakes on the line. Both [USC and TCU] are in a win-and-they're-in situation—TCU might be able to … [Read more...] about Can TCU actually win the College Football Playoff? Mike Golic Jr. weighs in

There are plenty of movies that are almost universally considered great — “The Godfather,” for example, is one. But those aren’t always the movies that stick with us, the ones we personally consider the greatest or best or just outright fun — the movies that bring us the most joy. HOUSTON'S HIDDEN GEM: Inside Memo's Record Shop, Houston's Latin music Mecca Houston native Andrew Ortiz knows this. It’s why he can remember scenes from his favorite movies more easily than his mom’s birthday, why he worked as a “movie hype man” for Alamo Drafthouse, why the first movie he watched in 2021 was purposefully “School of Rock” and why he created a T-shirt that proclaims “Judy Greer Should Have Been the Lead.” “When I watch a movie, it falls into two categories for the most part: It’s either, ‘it's great, and I love it’ or ‘it's pretty good,’” Ortiz said. “I'm a sucker, and I'm very easy to please, it doesn't take very much. Jack Black, a bunch of cool kids and some musical … [Read more...] about Houston’s Super Yaki knows nothing is too niche in the internet age

Listen to this article Latifi made his final F1 appearance with Williams in Abu Dhabi after the team opted to replace him with Formula 2 driver Logan Sargeant for the 2023 season. The Canadian scored nine points during his three-year stint with Williams but struggled to match the form of teammate Alex Albon throughout this season. After picking up his only points of the year in Japan by finishing ninth, Latifi failed to record a finish any higher than 16th in the final four races of the season. Despite having confirmation of his future that removed the pressure of fighting for his seat, Latifi said after his final outing in Abu Dhabi that it had not reduced the frustration of how the season had ended. "There's the extra emotional aspect [fighting for your seat] when things aren't going well," said Latifi. "But at the same time, I still have frustration and disappointment even when I know. Irrespective of knowing if I'm staying or not, I still wanted to do well, … [Read more...] about Latifi: Having “nothing to lose” didn’t ease late-season F1 frustration

As his Formula 1 career faded out with a final retirement, Nicholas Latifi says there was a “lot of frustration and disappointment” since learning of his Williams axing. Although the Canadian showed signs of promise last year, scoring seven points mid-season, he wasn’t able to follow that through in 2022. While his new team-mate Alex Albon progressed into Q2 sessions and scored a few points, Latifi qualified back of the grid after back of the grid. And yet still Williams CEO Jost Capito refused to entertain questions about his future. That came to a head at the Italian Grand Prix when Latifi was out-qualified and out-scored by substitute driver Nyck de Vries, the Dutchman in the points on his debut. He started eighth to Latifi’s P10 but finished P9, the Canadian dropping all the way back to 15th place. The writing was on the wall, Williams announcing before the next race that they would not be renewing Latifi’s contract . While he did manage to score two points in the wake … [Read more...] about Nicholas Latifi’s F1 career petered out in ‘frustration and disappointment’

Conceding there will be a “different dynamic” next season if he’s fighting Lewis Hamilton for race wins, George Russell still doesn’t think there’ll be conflict between the team-mates. Russell joined Mercedes at the beginning of the 2022 season with fans and pundits eager to see the contender to the throne taking on his record-breaking team-mate for race wins and the World title. Alas that never arrived, Mercedes under-performing W13 leaving the drivers to fight for podium finishes at best. They did, however, have one late-season moment with Russell pushed wide by Hamilton on the opening lap of the Mexican Grand Prix, the former Williams driver saying: “Probably if it was anyone else but my team-mate, I would have just run them off the road.” There could have been a second in Brazil when the team-mates lined up first and second on the Sao Paulo Grand Prix grid, Mercedes’ first front row lock-out of the championship, but pole-sitter Russell was quick off the line with … [Read more...] about George Russell can see ‘a different dynamic’ with Lewis Hamilton, but no conflict

Until this season it had been six years since Valtteri Bottas last beat his team mate over the course of the season. That was when he comfortably saw off Felipe Massa at Williams, before heading to Mercedes where he went up against no other team mate than Lewis Hamilton. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free It was only to be expected that a driver of Bottas’ experience, with 10 grand prix victories to his name, would show rookie team mate Zhou Guanyu the way. But Zhou can head into his second season at Alfa Romeo with his head held high. The score-line may reflect it poorly, but he showed up very well against his experienced team mate. Alfa Romeo began 2022 in great shape. Bottas put his car on the third row of the grid in Bahrain, but Zhou lagged well behind him. The newcomer quickly brought that gap down, and though it spiked over the half-second mark occasionally, that tended to be at unfamiliar tracks, and as the season went on he increasingly … [Read more...] about Bottas is team’s top scorer but Zhou makes case for a second season · RaceFans

Listen to this article Dixon will join Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande in Chip Ganassi Racing ’s full-time 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship entry, as the Cadillac V-LMDh makes its racing debut in IMSA’s new GTP class. The sister car, which will compete in the seven FIA World Endurance Championship rounds, will be driven by Earl Bamber , Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook . Meanwhile Action Express Racing ’s Cadillac is to be raced by Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims throughout the IMSA season, but today’s announcement confirms that Aitken will share driving duties for January’s around-the-clock classic on the 2.56-mile, 12-turn road course at Daytona International Speedway. Aitken was a race winner in GP3 and Formula 2, and was the Renault F1’s test driver before becoming reserve driver for the Williams F1 team for the past three seasons. In that capacity he made his grand prix debut with Williams at Sakhir in 2020, when the car’s usual … [Read more...] about Aitken joins AXR for Rolex 24, Dixon confirmed at Ganassi

Listen to this article Welcome to this week's top 10 photos chosen by our own photo editors. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did selecting those photos. And remember that you can write your own comments when you click on those photos and bring up the photo viewer page. Express yourself and let us know what you think! 10. BMW Museum: M-Spiral. We like round and organic shapes. We like BMW cars. We like M cars. 2008 BMW M1 Hommage and 1978 BMW M1 Photo by: Eric Gilbert 9. Toeing the line. Get it? Chaz Davies Photo by: Ducati Corse 8. A lovely general view at twilight of Richmond International Raceway during the NASCAR-CUP race last weekend. A better photo than the actual race was. Race action Photo by: NASCAR Media 7. We've said it before and we'll say it again: the GT3 spec is one of the best things to happen to GT/Sportscar racing in a long time. These full grids in the Blancpain GT Series are great to watch. And this … [Read more...] about Top 10 photos of the week: 2014-09-10